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Alt News India TV uses 2017 video to falsely claim Islamic preacher provoked Jamaatis to ‘spit’  BY POOJA CHAUDHURI The narrative around coronavirus pandemic has taken a turn for the worse in India with a majority of social media users and mainstream media outlets not only pinning the blame on the Muslim community but also accusing…More

The temple town of Sringeri in Karnataka’s Chikkamagluru saw the appearance of a ‘flag’ atop Shankaracharya statue on August 13. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state leaders were quick to declare that the flag belonged to the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI). BJP legislator representing Chikkamagaluru constituency CT Ravi and BJP MP Shobha Karandlage claimed that SDPI “planted” its…More

Several Twitter users have shared a video of a crowd raising slogans and claimed that a “thanks giving” rally was taken out by “some 31 Rohingyas” elected in the recent elections. (Archive link)https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=stoic_annu&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1396665851139399684&lang=en-gb&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.altnews.in%2Fvideo-of-people-in-up-bahraich-shouting-haji-saab-zindabad-shared-as-pro-pakistan-sloganeering-in-west-bengal%2F&sessionId=a46a1e2872f546d9eca91026068021910e831c0e&siteScreenName=AltNews&theme=light&widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&width=550px West Bengal assembly polls were held in eight phases from March 27 to April 29. The ruling TMC led by Mamata Banerjee…More

A video is massively viral on social media with the claim that people mass sneezed in Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin mosque to spread coronavirus infection. Below is a Facebook post by one Anita Saxena which has drawn 24,000 views and 1,700 shares.https://www.facebook.com/v2.8/plugins/video.php?app_id=298431377239806&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Df170e8f6ca462%26domain%3Dwww.altnews.in%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.altnews.in%252Ff34e80f4c2fe928%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=300&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fanitasaxena07%2Fvideos%2F2899423100125250%2F&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&show_text=true&width=500 The same clip has also been shared on Twitter. #NizamuddinIdiots they are not idiots like…More

Clarification One month since police clarified the lack of connection between perpetrators of the violence and the Islamic organisation, none of the mainstream media outlets, with viewership in lakhs, have taken down the stories.May 14, 2020 | Pooja Chaudhuri     Representative image of Tablighi Jamaat members walking to get tested for COVID-19. Photo: PTI Last month,…More

Old video of SP leader viral as Himalaya owner saying “We’re Muslims first, Indians later”  BY ALT NEWS DESK A video of a man saying that “we are Muslims first and Indians later” has been shared with the claim that he is the owner of the Himalaya Drug Company. The man also says, “We will not…More

An image of Congress President Sonia Gandhi has been shared on social media and it allegedly shows that the bookshelf behind her has the ‘Holy Bible’, a statue of Jesus and a book titled ‘How to Convert India into Christian Nation’. Twitter user @noconversion first tweeted the image, gaining over 700 retweets as of this writing. Another user @asgarhid drew more…More

A set of photographs of a man who seems to be sexually harassing a girl is widely circulating on social media with the claim that the incident took place in a madrasa. The Hindi caption leads people to assume that the video is from India. https://www.altnews.in/visuals-from-bangladesh-short-film-shared-with-false-claim-to-target-madarsa-in-india/More

On May 26, the Hindi daily published an image of mass burials and claimed it was taken three years ago. Based on this photograph, the outlet asserted that most pictures of mass graves at Shringverpur ghat in Prayagraj were taken in 2018. It then attempted to normalise the deaths by portraying there has been no increase due…More

On May 30, ANM (auxiliary nurse midwife) Neha Khan from Jamalpur Primary Health Centre in Aligarh was booked for allegedly disposing 29 syringes filled with COVID-19 vaccine without administrating them to the beneficiaries. ANI reported that on a complaint of the CMO, the police has lodged an FIR against Khan and the Medical Officer-in-charge of the primary…More